Melissa Clark’s Go-To Thanksgiving Pie

Published on Sunday, November 20, 2011, by Meredith Arthur, Daniel Masaoka and Blake Smith / Edit Post

This holiday episode of My Go-To Dish features Melissa Clark, cookbook author and food columnist for the New York Times. Her Thanksgiving dessert of choice is a pecan pie spiced with star anise. To make her go-to pie your own, see the recipe.

In My Go-To Dish, meticulously trained chefs, hardworking food-industry folks, and even, sometimes, famous actors show us their delicious, reliable, and easy meals. It's how they get dinner on the table quickly after a long day. Remember: They're just like us.

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  • YES! Almost every recipe for pecan pie has a ton of corn syrup which I always thought was unnecessary. Real nice to see this.

  • Great video! I have been reading Melissa Clark for years in the NY Times so it was lovely to finally see her "in person." Very entertaining and one of the simplest, yet effective, pie dough demonstrations I have seen. It should take the pie dough fear out of many.

  • Great video! I hope you'll do some more featuring Melissa Clark -- she has a very entertaining style. I especially liked the part about how to properly pronounce "pecan."

  • I still can't get over the fact that you Americans don't put sugar in your pie crusts. As far as I know, all the other Dutchies use like half flour-half sugar for pie crusts. But then again, this seems sweet enough for your average dentist to have died from heart attacks several times.